Border Modernism: Intercultural Readings in American Literary Modernism

ISBN-13: 9780415941495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 188 str.

Christopher Schedler;Schedler Christ

Opis

Reorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed border modernism that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan (high) modernism. In this dialogical study, Schedler compares the works of European and Anglo-American modernists (D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather) with the works of Mexican, Native American and Chicano writers (Mariano Azuela, John Joseph Mathews and Americo Paredes) who engaged with modernist theories and practices. In the process he uncovers a unique intercultural aesthetic produced in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico aimed at modernizing the native literary traditions of the Americas.

Spis treści

Original Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Border Modernism; 1. Migrations; I. Mariano Azuela: Migratory Modernism; II. D. H. Lawrence: Modernist Migrations; III. From Deracination to Deterritorialization; 2. Natives; I. John Joseph Mathews: Tribal Modernism; II. Ernest Hemingway: Modernist Tribalism; III. From Primitivism to Tribalism; 3. Cultures; I. Willa Cather: Modernist Ethnography; II. Ame?rico Paredes: Ethnographic Modernism; III. From Formalism to Historicism; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index;

O autorze

Christopher Schedler